Comments on: Darwin Day 02/12 http://freepresshouston.com/featured/darwin-day-0212/ Houston's only locally owned alternative newspaper Fri, 10 Feb 2026 21:54:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paul Amos Pruitt http://freepresshouston.com/featured/darwin-day-0212/comment-page-1/#comment-7194 Paul Amos Pruitt Tue, 01 Mar 2026 17:02:47 +0000 http://freepresshouston.com/?p=2974#comment-7194 From a Deist, thanks! We never liked it when believers in "revealed religion" hi-jacked a religious term (creationism) of ours and twisted it to imply continuous or periodic intervention on the part of the deity of "their" choice. Science is Science and Religion is Religion. The two will never meet. They can't. There simply is no intersection. Thankfully. Just one note. The old analogy about the "clock-maker-god" was about as good as we could do at the time. Times have changed. The notion of a "personified deity" is a kind of contradiction to us Deists. The better analogy for many of us today would be to compare it to "The Force" ala Star Wars fame. Although we still don't split it into a good versus bad, context. Deism is also the only religion that claims that if you don't believe the way we do, absolutely NO HARM will come to you as a result. It's perfectly OK not to believe in a deity at all. From a Deist, thanks!

We never liked it when believers in “revealed religion” hi-jacked a religious term (creationism) of ours and twisted it to imply continuous or periodic intervention on the part of the deity of “their” choice.

Science is Science and Religion is Religion. The two will never meet. They can’t. There simply is no intersection. Thankfully.

Just one note. The old analogy about the “clock-maker-god” was about as good as we could do at the time. Times have changed. The notion of a “personified deity” is a kind of contradiction to us Deists. The better analogy for many of us today would be to compare it to “The Force” ala Star Wars fame. Although we still don’t split it into a good versus bad, context.

Deism is also the only religion that claims that if you don’t believe the way we do, absolutely NO HARM will come to you as a result. It’s perfectly OK not to believe in a deity at all.

]]> By: Chris C. http://freepresshouston.com/featured/darwin-day-0212/comment-page-1/#comment-6574 Chris C. Fri, 11 Feb 2026 05:23:51 +0000 http://freepresshouston.com/?p=2974#comment-6574 Excellent article, Tyler. Just as you must have felt out of place growing up in your Creationism-focused hometown, the United States as a whole is largely out of place with the rest of the developed world regarding the acceptance of established science (see: climate change). As with many areas of thought in society, we can hope there is a generational aspect to this magnitude of ignorance, and as time passes our generation and the generations that follow will embrace science and reason with as much enthusiasm as you've displayed here. Excellent article, Tyler. Just as you must have felt out of place growing up in your Creationism-focused hometown, the United States as a whole is largely out of place with the rest of the developed world regarding the acceptance of established science (see: climate change). As with many areas of thought in society, we can hope there is a generational aspect to this magnitude of ignorance, and as time passes our generation and the generations that follow will embrace science and reason with as much enthusiasm as you’ve displayed here.

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